oshug March 2017

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Open Source Hardware Camp 2017 (2nd & 3rd Sept) Call for Participation.
by Andrew Back 04 Apr '17

04 Apr '17

Hello, This year Open Source Hardware Camp will take place over the weekend of Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd September, hosted as part of the Wuthering Bytes festival in Hebden Bridge, which in 2017 will take place over the course of 10 days (again!) We will be returning to the Birchcliffe Centre in Hebden Bridge, which benefits from the convenience of adjoining, budget accommodation. Proposals for talks and workshops for OSHCamp 2017 are invited! There is no theme and topics may include, for example: * Open source hardware projects * Open development practices and principles * Novel/interesting/fun projects built using open source hardware * Tools (hardware and software) * Skills and techniques, e.g. PCB fab, DIY SMT assembly * Relevant technologies, e.g. SPI/I2C bus programming * ...something else relevant to the community If you would like to give a talk on the Saturday and/or run a workshop on the Sunday please contact me off-list. **** Note that the deadline for submitting titles and abstracts is Monday 1st May. If you would like to discuss ideas etc. please get in touch sooner, rather than later. **** Other events running as part of Wuthering Bytes 2017 and which may be of interest: * Fri 1st: Wuthering Bytes Festival Day * Wed 6th & Thurs 7th: Chip Hack (http://chiphack.org/) * Thurs 7th PM & Fri 8th AM: EDSAC Challenge * Fri 8th AM - Sunday 10th PM: GNU ORConf (http://orconf.org/) Further details on these events to be provided in due course. Cheers, Andrew PS. If you are planning on coming along and thinking of staying at the adjoining hosted, it is worth noting that this can book up quickly. http://www.hebdenbridgehostel.co.uk/ PPS. Super Early Bird tickets for the super organised: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-source-hardware-camp-2017-tickets-31845… (pretty sure Eventbrite don't take payment until after the event). -- Andrew Back http://abopen.com

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NetFPGA Developers Summit - Call For Participation
by Neelakandan 29 Mar '17

29 Mar '17

We welcome you to join us at the University of Cambridge on April 20-21, 2017 for the NetFPGA Developers Summit [1]. Held immediately prior to Eurosys 2017, this event is intended to permit participants attend both events with reduced intercontinental travel. The programme includes presentations, live demonstrations, and group discussions on topics that are of an interest to the NetFPGA community. This event will run "un-conference style" in that we brainstorm the actual session schedule on the first morning, with a focus on interactive topics that reflect the interests and exploit the knowledge of the attendees -- but there's also room for traditional talks, etc. There are plenty of break-out rooms for small groups to meet as they see fit. Confirmed topics include: * Running P4 programmes on NetFPGA * Low latency networking * Running network services in hardware * Optical networks * Traffic control tools * More -- See the draft programme on the Wiki [1] See you in Cambridge, The NetFPGA Team http://www.netfpga.org [1] NetFPGA-Developers-Summit-2017 <https://github.com/NetFPGA/NetFPGA-public/wiki/NetFPGA-Developers-Summit-20…>

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Fwd: ORConf 2017 call for participation
by Andrew Back 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

The ORCONF 2017 CFP is out! Why not head up to Hebden Bridge and make a week of it, with Open Source Hardware Camp, ORCONF and Chip Hack :o) Details below. Cheers, Andrew -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Orconf-announce] ORConf 2017 call for participation Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 23:03:14 +1100 From: Julius Baxter <julius(a)fossi-foundation.org> To: orconf-announce(a)lists.librecores.org Hi all, ORConf 2017 will be held in Hebden Bridge in the UK from Friday to Sunday, September 8th to the 10th. I'd like to announce that we've opened submissions for presentations, posters and hardware displays at the event. Proposals may be submitted through this form: https://goo.gl/forms/fwALSQvbyUfE83Fh1 ORConf aims to be an event aimed at anyone involved in free and open source computer system design, with an emphasis on open source digital design. So if you contribute to a tool to help put systems together, or develop on and debug them, or publish components and IP, or even make fully-open source chips(!) we'd very much like to hear from you! ORConf this year is being held as part of the esteemed Wuthering Bytes Festival of Technology: http://wutheringbytes.com/ There will be events in Hebden Bridge starting September 1st, so do check it out. We'll be in touch when general registration opens and further details of the event become available, which shouldn't be too far away. All details will be on http://orconf.org as they become available. As always we're looking for sponsorship for this year's event. If you think you'd like to have your company's name associated with it, please email us at orconf(a)fossi-foundation.org <mailto:orconf@fossi-foundation.org> and we'll get talking. Whether or not you're intending on presenting, we're hoping to see everyone again for another year of great presentations and, this time, a few good English ales. Cheers, The ORConf team

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OSHUG 57 — Getting started with NetBSD on embedded platforms, Thursday 20th April.
by Andrew Back 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

Hello, Registration is now open for the fifty-seventh meeting, which will be an evening workshop, providing a hands-on introduction to NetBSD on embedded platforms. Cheers, Andrew // OSHUG #57 — Getting started with NetBSD on embedded platforms On the 20 April 2017, 17:30 - 20:00 at BCS London, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. Registration: http://oshug.org/event/57 — Workshop scope You're hired at the latest startup as a hardware engineer and required to build the firmware which will run on "The Greatest Next Generation Appliance" (GNA). The GNA boots, prints a message and interacts with a device (in this case an LED). In this workshop we cover how a person with an interest and a focus on hardware can make progress with the software side by using the NetBSD operating system and the features it offers to save considerable time and effort. * NetBSD supports a wide & diverse range of systems & CPU architectures. * Support for cross compilation is offered by default and works out of the box. * There is a high level language interface to interact with the system internals. * File integrity verification support to detect tampering of binaries and preventing execution is builtin. * An instance of the kernel can be run as a user process on different operating systems where rapid development can take place. Things we will cover: 1. An introduction to cross-compilation with build.sh and constructing an image to boot on your hardware. 2. Interacting with the system using Lua (which is embedded in the kernel, avoiding having to write C or have knowledge of OS internals) to e.g. access GPIO. 3. Preventing the execution of tampered or unauthorised binaries with veriexec. 4. Using rump kernel for rapid development away from a potentially slow dev board. ** Note: Due to budgeting cuts, "The Greatest Next Generation Appliance" has not yet been purchased, so, the workshop will target the development of the firmware on a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone Black.** — Participant requirements You will need to bring: * Your own laptop (running Windows, Linux or Mac OS X); * A Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone Black; * An appropriate SD card for your board; * USB card reader to write a new OS image onto said SD card; * An ethernet cable to connect board to laptop and/or a USB UART/FTDI adapter to access the board via the serial console. — Hosted by Sevan Janiyan is founder of Venture 37, which provides system administration & consultancy services. As a fan of operating systems and computers with different CPU architectures, in his spare time he maintains builds of open source software on a variety of systems featuring PowerPC, SPARC and armv7l CPUs. He hopes to own a NeXTcube & OMRON LUNA-88K2 one day. Note: Please aim to arrive by 17:15 as the workshop will start at 17:30 prompt. -- Andrew Back http://abopen.com

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Looking for freelance PCB designer
by Neil Thomson 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Job opportunity for freelance electrical engineer / PCB designer It's The Flash Pac <http://www.itstheflashpack.com/>k are an award winning photo experience agency, specialising in creating fun, interactive photography based experiences at live events. We are known for our innovative approach to briefs, our ability to create striking branded content, and our expertise in delivering amplification of content pre, during, and post event. We are in need of a electrical engineer to spec and design a small PCB for the Raspberry Pi 2, in effect a Raspberry Pi ‘HAT’. The applicant must be able to show recent examples of PCBs designed through to fabrication in Eagle CAD or similar for a commercial client, a thorough understanding of the Raspberry Pi 2 B+ is of benefit. We have a technical requirements document and have sourced some components but consultation is required to fully scope the work, to check that our desired specifications are fully feasible and the components are sufficient to fulfil the requirements. For those interested please email me at (neil(a)itstheflashpack.com) with CV / portfolio. Thanks!

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NetFPGA Design Challenge - Call For Participation
by Neelakandan 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

We are pleased to announce the 2017 NetFPGA Design Challenge! NetFPGA platforms are used by the networked systems community for close to a decade. The platforms enable researchers and instructors to build high-speed, hardware-accelerated networking systems. The platforms can be used by researchers to prototype advanced services for next-generation networked systems. By using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), NetFPGA enables new types of packet routing circuits to be implemented and detailed measurements of network traffic to be obtained. The NetFPGA 2017 contest is a design challenge. The design teams are to produce a working implementation employing any HW and SW design methodology and targeting the NetFPGA SUME platform. The deadline for submissions is April 13th, 2017. The winners will be announced at the NetFPGA Developers Summit (Thursday 20th - Friday, 21st April, 2017 Cambridge, UK). Challenge: Lowest Latency Switch Low latency devices are being increasingly used across a large number of applications. Low latency solutions are few, and are rarely open source. The goal of this challenge is to provide a usable, high performance, open source alternative to use by universities and organizations who need the flexibility of open source. The systems will be evaluated using OSNT, an Open Source Network Tester. Test benches will be available online, for users to experiment and independently evaluate their design. The competition is open to students of all levels (undergraduate and postgraduate), as well as to non students. There is no need to own a NetFPGA SUME platform to take part in the competition although, clearly, development and testing will be made easier if you have access to this platform. Team Prizes: First place: 500GBP Best students project: 500GBP The winning projects and runner ups will be invited to present their work at the NetFPGA Developers Summit 2017. All challenge participants are keenly encouraged to attend the NetFPGA Developers Summit and are entitled to a reduced registration rate. The design challenge prizes are generously supported by IMC http://www.imc.nl/ More details can be found at: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netfpga/challenge2017 Good luck! The NetFPGA Team http://www.netfpga.org

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